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SU(2) is the 3-sphere: we can think of it as the unit sphere in 4, or 2, or the quaternions .

The 120 points in the binary icosahedral group Γ ⊂ SU(2) are the vertices of a 4-dimensional regular polytope with 600 tetrahedral faces: the 600-cell.











You can learn more at the Wikipedia article on the 600-cell. This animated gif of the 600-cell was created by Jason Hise and put into the public domain on Wikicommons.